Former Strikeforce champ Luke Rockhold calls out Michael Bisping

It’s only been 10 days, but Luke Rockhold already is looking for his next fight. And it’s one that has been talked about plenty already.

Rockhold (10-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) earlier this month was knocked out by a Vitor Belfort spinning kick at UFC on FX 8 in Brazil. But now the cobwebs have cleared, and the former Strikeforce middleweight champion is interested in a shot at longtime UFC contender Michael Bisping (24-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC).

Rockhold on Tuesday took to his Twitter account to call out the Brit and copied in UFC President Dana White in the tweet.

“@bisping u dont have opponent, I dont have opponent, u talk s–t about ‘practice’ i say we set the record straight once & for all @danawhite,” Rockhold wrote.

Late this past year, Bisping said he had done a sparring session with Rockhold, and because of how that session went, he considered him the unofficial Strikeforce middleweight champion, the title Rockhold held at the time before that promotion was folded into the UFC in January.

Bisping in April beat Alan Belcher by TKO when the fight had to be stopped in the third round due to an accidental eye poke by Bisping. But in January, coincidentally, Bisping suffered much the same fate as Rockhold at the hands of Belfort when he was kicked in the head and stopped at UFC on FX 7 in Brazil.

Before Rockhold’s loss to Belfort, he had a nine-fight win streak that included a unanimous decision over Ronaldo Souza to win the Strikeforce 185-pound belt in September 2011. He defended that title with a first-round TKO of Keith Jardine and a decision win over Tim Kennedy, but injuries kept him from defending it again before Strikeforce folded.

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